Anti-government protesters are celebrating in Thailand after the country's top court removed Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat from office and ordered his ruling party disbanded for alleged vote-rigging. The intervention follows months of unrest, culminating in an ongoing siege at Bangkok's main airport.

Terrorists are likely to use a weapon of mass destruction somewhere in the world in the next five years, a blue-ribbon panel assembled by Congress has concluded.

Years before the first Gulf War, Saddam Hussein was slaughtering Iraq's Kurds with bombs, bullets and gas.

Mumbai's police chief said Tuesday that he never received a warning of an impending seaborne attack on his city. Indian security forces have told CNN that U.S. officials warned the Indian government in New Delhi on two occasions about a waterborne attack in Mumbai.

Italian police Tuesday arrested two Moroccans suspected of preparing a series of terrorist attacks in northern Italy near Milan, authorities announced.

Eleven schoolgirls in northwest China's Shaanxi province died from carbon monoxide poisoning after they used a school-provided charcoal heater to warm their dorm room, China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday.

Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak has killed nearly nearly 500 people, according to the World Health Organization.

The former Iraqi general known as Chemical Ali has been sentenced to death a second time, the country's official state television reported Tuesday.